“Regarding those claims from Kyiv that we allegedly did it ourselves: I have not heard a truthful statement from Kyiv for months,” he told the Rossiya 24 television channel.Ĭlick here to follow our live blog for updates Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "This is not an accident, it's a crime," he added.įor his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed Kyiv’s accusations that Moscow could be behind the attack. “It’s very important that we don’t allow Russia to prevent an absolutely comprehensive investigation so that we can find out exactly what happened here.” “The initial response of the Russian ambassador was to blame Ukraine for this and I have to say that is deeply, deeply unsatisfactory,” he said. Since planes usually have two black boxes – one for recording flight data and the other for recording cockpit voices – it was not clear what the number 12 referred to.Īn angry Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott demanded an independent inquiry into the downing.
PHOTOS: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashes in Ukraineīy midday, 181 bodies had been located, according to emergency workers at the sprawling crash site.Įarlier Friday, an aide to rebel leader Alexander Borodai said authorities had recovered eight out of 12 recording devices. The Ukraine government in Kyiv, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting in the east and the Russian government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all deny shooting the passenger plane down. intelligence authorities said a surface-to-air missile brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, but could not say who fired it. The attack Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations – including vacationers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia. ROZSYPNE, Ukraine – Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners – dressed in overalls and covered in soot – spread out Friday across the sunflower fields and villages of eastern Ukraine, searching the wreckage of a jetliner shot down as it flew miles above the country’s battlefield.
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